Sufi's and God Alone

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Beloveds,

 

"A poet breathes into a reed flute

and the tip of every hair makes music."

 

~Rumi~

 

All your words, written, thought, and spoken, leap into my eyes,

ears, and mind, and plunge into my heart to arise as new inspiration

from divine creative energy exchanged. I bow to the divine creative

energy in all. Coleman Barks, that great lover and translator of Sufi

mystical poetry, writes this describing Lalla's writing:

 

There are yogic references, and Shaivite and sufi terms in the

poetry, but the deepest, most constant truth is what she shares with

all the great mystics, "There is no reality but God," within and

without, "only God." This awareness is the essence of worship. For

Lalla, there is no difference between the individual self and the

universal self, and the purpose of human life is to realize this. The

names for the various elements - soul, God, enlightenment - do not

matter. The changeless (Shiva) and the constantly creating (Shakti)

are joined in the breath. Breathing out, sah, and breathing in, ham,

composes one realization, I am That (sah-ham), which dissolves

duality. Master, Paramahansa Yogananda, taught us a meditation

technique called 'Hong-Sau.' If dissolving it be, then let me be a

salt doll. And someone hum me into the sea! Here is Lalla, twice

delighting us:

 

"I wearied myself searching for the Friend

with efforts beyond my strength.

 

I came to the door and sw how

powerfully the locks were bolted.

 

And the longing in me became that strong,

and then I saw that i was gazing

from within the presence.

 

With that waiting, and in giving up all trying,

only then did Lalla flow out

from where I knelt."

 

 

"I, Lalla, entered the jasmine garden,

where Shiva and Shakti were making love.

 

I dissolved into them,

and what is this

to me, now?

 

I seem to be here,

but really I'm walking

in the jasmine garden."

 

With Love,

Mazie